Brad Neffendorf - Head Coach

Brad is 2010 Portland Baseball Club 18U team head coach. Brad is currently the head coach at Aloha HS as well as an associate scout with the Florida Marlins. As a summer ball head coach, Brad led NW Star Academy to a career 89-23 record including 5 tournament championships. The biggest thrillcame in 2008 when he led the team to the Senior Babe Ruth World Series Championship in Newark, Ohio. Brad has an extensive coaching background to include JV coach at Clackamas HS, head coach of Portland Vandals, coach during the Pacific Northwest Championships, pitching coach at Mt. Hood Community College, as well as working various camps from Oregon to Oregon State to Bend Prospect Camp.

Brad played college ball at Clackamas CC where he was a two year starting pitcher. He compiled 120 innings in two years, was all league as a sophomore, and selected to play in the Sophomore Showcase All Star Game. During the summer of his freshman year he played for Beaverton Ringor, a metro area Babe Ruth team. They finished with a record of 52-8, won the state and regional tournaments, and placed 4th in the Senior Babe Ruth World Series in Weimar, Texas. The following summer Brad was selected to play for the Portland Kings of the Pacific International League, which were the reigning champs and 1 game away from the NBC World Series in 2004. That summer Brad went down with a career ending shoulder injury.

Mick Ellett - Pitching Coach

Mick is in his second year as pitching coach for Portland Baseball Club after spending 3 years as a head and assistant coach with NW Star Academy. He is also the pitching coach at Clackamas CC where his 2008 team made the NWAACC playoffs. Mick has an extensive coaching background at the high school and collegiate levels. He was the head varsity coach at Barlow HS and David Douglas from 26 years before starting his collegiate coaching career. Mick was the pitching coach for 6 years at Lewis & Clark College and has been the pitching coach at Clackamas CC since 2003. During the summers, MIck was the head coach of the Aloha Knights for 3 years and was the pitching coach for 2 years after that. He left the Knights and started the Portland Kings. He led the Kings for 4 years adn always fielding a competitive team that included a #1 seed in 2004.

Nic Chapin - Assistant Coach

Nic joins Portland Baseball Club in 2010 as an assistant coach. He is currently an assistant coach at Mt. Hood Community College. Nic was a 2002 graduate of Oregon City HS and was awarded the Three Rivers League Co-Conference Player of the Year and First Team All State Honors. He went on to play two seasons at Mt. Hood CC under head coach Gabe Sandy. While at Mt. Hood, he received first team All League honors both years in addition to being named to the NWAACC All Tournament Team as an outfielder. In 2005, he signed a scholarship at Oregon State University to play for head coach Pat Casey. He spent one year at OSU and transfered to George Fox University in 2006 where he played for current OSU Assistant Coach Pat Bailey. In the spring of 2008, Nic started coaching as an assistant to JJ Winkle at Oregon City HS. Nic graduated from George Fox with a bachelors degree in History and a masters in Teaching. In 2009 he was an assistant at Clackamas HS and coached in the WCCBL Portland League.

Mike Lord - Assistant Coach

Mike joins Portland Baseball Club in 2010 as an assistant coach. Mike is currently the head coach at West Linn High School. He just completed his 8th year there. He was named the Three Rivers League Coach of hte Year in 2005 and 2007. Mike is also the head freshman football coach and teaches in the social studies department. Mike comes from a baseball family. His dad Greg was a long time head coach at Oregon City and Madison HS. Most of of what Mike brings to the diamond has evolved from his father and his longtime assistant coach Tom Neibergall. He played football and baseball at Oregon City HS and went on to Linfield College where he played both football and baseball before graduating with a degree in history in 1999.